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Mentor Capital Backs Pueblo West in Colorado Cannabis

SAN DIEGO, Mentor Capital, Inc. (OTCQB: MNTR) announced that it has extended into the Colorado cannabis market with its new investment in Pueblo West Organics, LLC. Pueblo was founded by Randy Russell in 2013 and cannabis veteran, Pat Leonard, joined in 2016 and comments, “Chet Billingsley and I first discussed working together back in 2013. It’s great to see things come together with Mentor Capital and Pueblo’s Pat Pen Products, which are available throughout Colorado and soon headed to other states.” As is its historic practice, Mentor would be pleased to make a series of cannabis-focused investments with Pueblo West Organics and has set up Mentor Partner II, LLC as a vehicle for that purpose. The initial investment here is an approximately $400,000 lease of a system for supercritical extraction.

Mentor CEO, Chet Billingsley, reports the timing and source of funds for this cannabis investment follow the January 23, 2018 check for $1,758,949, received by Mentor marking full recovery with interest of money owed to it by Bhang Corporation under a Judgment by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in Mentor’s favor and against Bhang Corporation. From an additional $286,718 also deposited by Bhang, for a total of $2,045,667, Mentor repurchased and recovered 117,000 shares of its common stock under the Judgment. In a related matter, on January 25, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Utah dismissed a case which Mentor Capital had been defending and concurrently in favor of Mentor vacated its associated September 25, 2017 Memorandum Decision.

With the closing of the Utah case on February 8, 2018, final receipt of funds, and resolving of remaining legal questions in Mentor’s favor, Mentor Capital is free to rotate the Bhang funds over to Pueblo West and others and to resume its M&A activities in the cannabis space without restriction.

About Mentor Capital: The Company seeks to come alongside and assist private medical marijuana and cannabis companies and their founders in meeting their liquidity and financial objectives, to add protection for investors and to help incubate larger private cannabis companies. Additional important information for investors is presented at:

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